“Subversive acts are a biological rebellion. They interrupt fear-based responses and activate neuroplasticity—our brain’s ability to rewire itself.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Imagine cities that resemble forests, technologies that heal rather than harm, and societies rooted in balance and cooperation.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“The world is watching. The future is unwritten. And we are the authors of what comes next.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Change doesn’t begin with grand gestures—it starts with us.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity: A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“Sometimes, we have to say goodbye to the love we wish could stay forever.”
“To talk nonsense in one’s own way is almost better than to talk a truth that’s someone else’s”
“Plastic should be a high value material... [It] should be in products that last a long time, and at the end of the life, you recycle it. To take oil or natural gas that took millions of years to produce and then to make a disposable product that last minutes or seconds, and then to just discard it--I think that's not a good way of using this resource. (Robert Haley)”
Source: Plastic: A Toxic Love Story – An Engaging Analysis of Cultural Dependency and the Resulting Environmental Crisis
“..the planet is just too small for these developing countries to repeat the economic growth in the same way that the rich countries have done it in the past. We don't have enough natural resources, we don't have enough atmosphere. Clearly, something has to change.”
“The natural resources of the world do not belong to any person, organization, collective, or so-called nation.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“The animacy of the world is something we already know, but the language of animacy teeters on
extinction-not just for Native peoples, but for everyone. Our toddlers speak of plants and animals as if they were people, extending to them self and intention and compassion-until we teach them not to. We quickly retrain them and make them forget. When we tell them that the tree is not a who, but an it, we make that maple an object; we put a barrier between us, absolving ourselves of moral responsibility and opening the door to exploitation. Saying it makes a living land into "natural resources." If a maple is an it, we can take up the chain saw. If a maple is a her, we think twice.”
Source: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants